§ Mr. Ian TaylorTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to encourage wider share ownership through employee share ownership plans.
§ Mr. Norman LamontThe Government remain firmly committed to supporting employee share ownership, as our record of legislation in nine out of the last 10 Budgets testifies. We shall continue to examine sympathetically the wide variety of proposals made for new initiatives or improvements in this area, to see how far they are capable of building on the impressive progress already achieved.